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A4000 Floppy Question
« on: May 02, 2003, 12:11:36 PM »
Just bought a second hand A4000, the HD internal disk drive has been replaced with an 880K at some point in its life.
I've tryed to add a second internal floppy using several Amiga internal floppy disc drives and standard PC Floppy Lead, but this does not appear to work.

I know the a2000 supported two floppies of the internal controller as i used to have one. Just cant remember if the cable was a standard PC type floppy cable with the twist in or one with out a twist.

Any advice will be great thanks.
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Re: A4000 Floppy Question
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2003, 12:37:17 PM »
You have to use a non "twisted cable"
And use a real AMIGA-Floppy

My 4000 has two HD-Floppys...
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Re: A4000 Floppy Question
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2003, 12:54:58 PM »
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duesi wrote:
You have to use a non "twisted cable"
And use a real AMIGA-Floppy

My 4000 has two HD-Floppys...


Cheers

Got the real floppy just not the non twisted cable
time for some cutting and undo the twist  :-D  :-D

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Re: A4000 Floppy Question
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2003, 01:09:10 PM »
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duesi wrote:
You have to use a non "twisted cable"
And use a real AMIGA-Floppy

My 4000 has two HD-Floppys...


Yeap got it working...

Took the twist out the cable, crimped the connector backon. Had to put a jumper on the motherboard DF1 880K and swap the small jumper on the back of the a1200 floppy drive from 1 to 2.

Once again thankyou :-D  :-D
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Re: A4000 Floppy Question
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2003, 01:28:24 PM »
Yeah absolutely correct !
I have only one strange behavior:

When DF0: is active the LED on DF1: is also on !
But it works fine...
A4000D CS060/MKII with SCSI, CV64/4MB, 128MB Fast, ACARD AEC-7720U SCSI-IDE,80GB Samsung HDD, Yamaha CDRW, XSurf2, OS3.9BB2
A500,1MB Chip Kick1.3/3.1,GVP A500+ 540MB HDD and 8MB Fast,GVP DSS 8Bit Sampler